Kumar and Amma's actions matter. In a country where collective complacency has calcified into a survival strategy, watching someone say 'no' feels radical.
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When I choose to be a dissenting voice within my community, or when I write about atrocities faced by minorities in Muslim-majority countries, people like Deepak become my strength.
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The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
Muslims treat other faiths with contempt. Now they are on the receiving end; not just in India, but globally. Land grabbing in the name of religious identity by Muslims have been going on in the areas ruled by Muslims for more than hundred years. In the recent past after the independence it happened as encroachments in Muslim-majority areas in India. If you say jihad is something of a made up issue, what about halal? Wake halal, brush halal, teeth halal, bath halal, talk halal. I even saw a youtube video that advocated halal sex for Muslims!
Rotten politics. Why dont these bigots label everything a Muslim does as jihad? For eaxmple, wake jihad, brushing teeth jihad, bath jihad, talk jihad?
The Musilm community does have serious challenges but one fails to see how such actions will resolve them. How will they bring the community to progress. How will the talent in the Muslim community be tapped for the betterment of the community and the country?
All this is happening in what is called Devbhoomi by these perpetrators. Would the almight really treat people of other faiths with so much contempt?
You are right! Halal is also something of a made up issue.
Muslims treat other faiths with contempt. Now they are on the receiving end; not just in India, but globally. Land grabbing in the name of religious identity by Muslims have been going on in the areas ruled by Muslims for more than hundred years. In the recent past after the independence it happened as encroachments in Muslim-majority areas in India. If you say jihad is something of a made up issue, what about halal? Wake halal, brush halal, teeth halal, bath halal, talk halal. I even saw a youtube video that advocated halal sex for Muslims!
Rotten politics. Why dont these bigots label everything a Muslim does as jihad? For eaxmple, wake jihad, brushing teeth jihad, bath jihad, talk jihad?
The Musilm community does have serious challenges but one fails to see how such actions will resolve them. How will they bring the community to progress. How will the talent in the Muslim community be tapped for the betterment of the community and the country?
All this is happening in what is called Devbhoomi by these perpetrators. Would the almight really treat people of other faiths with so much contempt?